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Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions

2nd Edition
March 1, 2026
John Hill
English
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Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions, Second Edition explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of Fintech, this book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations, and social considerations. The second edition expands and updates topics covered in the first edition, with particular emphasis on current and expected impact of AI; maturation of crypto and consequent regulatory issues; international developments; and the continued integration of technology advances in large financial institutions. This book shows how Fintech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation, and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts.

Emotional Security and Conflict in Context

1st Edition
March 1, 2026
E. Mark Cummings + 1 more
English
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Emotional Security and Conflict in Context: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment covers the effects of conflict on children. Moving beyond conflict in the family, over 1 billion children are affected by community and political conflict and war, which also has profound and long-lasting implications for development. This book integrates several theoretical models that are central to work in this field, providing a clear review of the literature in a way that systematically and logically flows. In addition, it discusses child development from a developmental psychopathology perspective.Finally, the book integrates perspectives on violence and conflict across the social ecology, as well as several theoretical frameworks that are core to the field.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

1st Edition
Volume 73
March 1, 2026
English
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The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in Volume 73 include cultural transmission of bias, conspiracy mentality, social power, authenticity, and collective narcissism.

Performance Attribution Volume 2

2nd Edition
February 27, 2026
Brian Singer + 2 more
English
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Performance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), its concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.

A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management

1st Edition
February 26, 2026
Jonathan Schachter + 2 more
English
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A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management offers robust coverage for current and future financial engineers. Useful as part of a masters program, for self-study, or as a valuable reference, the textbook explains in step-by-step, practical terms how mathematical models owned by financial institutions are essential to their public activities, including sales, trading, risk management, and internal audits. Like a diverse fleet of cars maintained by a rental car location, a bank must make sure customers can "drive" any of its models for a specific financial product. The book covers both pricing and risk models. Chapters consider modeling basics, marked-to-market and marked-to-model asset classes, market risk, credit risk, portfolio risk, operational risk, capital model risk, and financial crime, along with machine learning/AI.To support course use and practical applications, the text provides examples in Python throughout, as well as an appendix containing homework problems for all chapters, further supported by an ftp site for data and sample code. Additional appendices cover global model risk management, and a refresher in statistics.

Commodities for Sustainable Development

1st Edition
February 10, 2026
Adam Marszk
English
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Commodities for Sustainable Development: Exchange-Traded Commodities and Other Commodity-linked Financial Instruments offers detailed, highly focused insight into commodities investing in line with sustainability and ESG principles. It uniquely focuses on commodities in the sustainable/ESG investment portfolios with the exposure gained through the units of ETCs, and it provides an up-to-date review of the literature and theoretical concepts in this emerging area of commodities investing. It is designed as a detailed discussion of various topics concerning commodities and their role in sustainability, understood twofold as contributions or barriers to sustainable development and one of the major components in sustainable investing portfolios.The book explains the main features of ETCs and compares them to other similar financial products—especially the ones used for commodities investing—indicating their relative strengths and weaknesses. It also discusses the possible impact of ETCs on related markets, including the ones for the underlying assets, derived from empirical and theoretical examinations. The empirical analysis presented in the book covers all ETCs available globally, thus offering valuable insights into the often-understudied markets. It also covers the possible application of ETCs as tools for sustainable investing in commodities. It discusses problematic issues linked to commodities investments (from the sustainability perspective) and assesses the ESG profile of the major ETCs, also as detailed case studies. It also discusses sustainable development policies in the context of the commodities and financial investment industries.This book serves as a valuable resource for a wide range of readers—researchers, students, instructors, and professionals alike—due to its theoretical and empirical outline of the commodities-linked financial instruments, particularly ETCs.

Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One

2nd Edition
February 1, 2026
Russ Wermers + 2 more
English
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Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio evaluation. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this Second Edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model and the new models of Fama and French, new examples, and new work on qualitative considerations. This highly detailed new edition combines academic rigor with practical applications and guidance for applications of diverse approaches.

Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation

1st Edition
February 1, 2026
John R. Vacca
English
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Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation: Solving Climate-Geoengineeri... Technology Problems serves as a complete and concise view of climate engineering, where geoengineering is an umbrella term for human interventions that change and modify the earth's climate system. The book offers in-depth coverage of how human activity is shaping the earth more than natural forces; where it can be seen as a way of redesigning and modifying the atmosphere of the planet. It offers more viable solutions for climate engineering through theory, technology, and practice, as they relate to established technologies as well as recent and future advancements.

New Transportation Modes and ‘Old’ Transportation Modes that are in the Process of Renewing Themselves

1st Edition
Volume 17
February 1, 2026
English
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New Transportation Modes and ‘Old’ Transportation Modes that are in the Process of Renewing Themselves, Volume 17 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics in this new release include The role of organization, policy and planning in facilitating (or constraining) the transport energy transition, Behavioral dimensions and dynamics of transportation modes.

Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation (NIPE) for Brain and Mental Health

1st Edition
Volume 299
February 1, 2026
English
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Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

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